I used this last week with 36 graduates at the end of a week long training course. The exercise was excellent and all the graduates enjoyed it. The detail of the handouts was brilliant, and the names used caused some giggles but there was some serious learning throughout being leadership, attention to detail, analysis, problem solving, communication and team building not to mention time management! The only area I would improve on would be to perhaps add in an example of calendar, notes on whether the teams can meet with "council members" (we decided to meet them although only 2 "members were ever present"!) I also could not find the handout to use if you weren't going to include the funding request. Overall excellent exercise and I will be using it again. Thanks for another brill exercise!

I used Boosting Glasstap Grange as a Problem Solving exercise but it can be used for a variety of skills as it really makes people work together. The exercises involve analytical skills and decision making as well as team work. As the group had done a creative problem solving session previous to this exercise which also involved decision making it helped them practice their decision making skills.

What a great little exercise! I ran it with a small team who have struggled to work together, particularly as two of the team have very strong personalities and tend to dominate any discussions or team meetings.

In just two hours working on "Boosting Glasstap's Future" it was evident what strengths each player could bring to bear that would create a synergy not previously observed. The two strongest characters both proved to be 'ideas' people whereas one of the two quieter ones naturally assumed a support and research role, checking calculations, finances and researching the various options available such as property development choices. The most interesting discovery was with the youngest member of the team who turned out to be a quiet genius! She sat back, observed everyone's input and then concisely, accurately and unfailingly came up with the most appropriate solution.

The outcome of the exercise was a comprehensive debrief where the team analysed their own and other's contributions and discussed how this should enable them to work better as a team in the future. I saw that they were genuinely surprised to realise that each one of them had a valid and valuable contribution to make.

The real surprise, however, was just how involved they got in the exercise. They all became thoroughly immersed in trying to build a better future for the town and, even during the debrief, were still mulling over ideas. The funniest bit of the morning was where one participant stood by the window looking at our carpark trying to work out how many parking spaces they could fit into the site they were planning on buying at Glasstap. Priceless!